MASS (version 7.3-49)

geyser: Old Faithful Geyser Data

Description

A version of the eruptions data from the ‘Old Faithful’ geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. This version comes from Azzalini and Bowman (1990) and is of continuous measurement from August 1 to August 15, 1985.

Some nocturnal duration measurements were coded as 2, 3 or 4 minutes, having originally been described as ‘short’, ‘medium’ or ‘long’.

Usage

geyser

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 299 observations on 2 variables.

duration numeric Eruption time in mins
waiting numeric Waiting time for this eruption

References

Azzalini, A. and Bowman, A. W. (1990) A look at some data on the Old Faithful geyser. Applied Statistics 39, 357--365.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

See Also

faithful.

CRAN package sm.